http://whichwayshallivote.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/trust-and-your-vote/An interesting collection of States business (or lack of it), including a the evergreen issue of GST:
http://whichwayshallivote.wordpress.com/i-will-not-raise-gst/Senator P.F.C. Ozouf:
I can give the Assembly a categoric assurance that I will not bring proposals to increase G.S.T. We have created the Stabilisation Fund and this Assembly has agreed to put some £120 million to £140 million. That is the Fund that will enable us to take the economy through difficult times and I will have no hesitation in preparing scenarios for a downturn to keepJerseypeople in jobs and our economy thriving. Unlike most other jurisdictions, we have the wherewithal to do that.
Source: Hansard Thursday 11th December, 2008
So the question included the context of the world-wide recession happening at the time. The answer included that context also.
If you cannot trust them can you vote for them?
